The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

Popperwell

Molly my Mum slept through a mini earthquake that reached here not many years ago.

floss2

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Its my birthday today

Happy birthday from a very sunny & blue-skied Blackpool :wave:

Popperwell wrote: »

Well done Possession being prepared. I'm well ready for most disasters, food store, flasks, warm clothes, in credit with rent and utility payments. The garden is sorted and most rooms either virtually empty and the rest uncluttered so why do I get hassle with the H. Association. And am treated as though I'm weird.

The people I have found now and can call friends see the intimadation and harrasment I have to put up with...:mad:I'm not paranoid. Just single.

Pops, as others have said, they may be wondering whether you can actually afford to heat your home, especially with empty rooms and being on your own. Also, if you are so far in credit with your fuel, why not put the heating on for background warmth and to help your aches & pains occasionally?

Popperwell wrote: »

Molly my Mum slept through a mini earthquake that reached here not many years ago.

We've had a few recently - DH tends to wake up when the wardrobe rattles on the wooden floor, but I sleep through them!

PRINCESSX87

Never fell in - Until now. Does anyone have a list of meals I can cook tomorrow that can be eaten cold? We're all electric here and don't want to chance being caught out??

twiz21

PRINCESSX87 wrote: »

Never fell in - Until now. Does anyone have a list of meals I can cook tomorrow that can be eaten cold? We're all electric here and don't want to chance being caught out??

Quiche
Pies
Oven omelette (crustless quiche)
Humus
Meat Loaf
Roast chicken or a joint
Pasta salad
Lentil pate

Can serve with salad and bread.

PRINCESSX87

twiz thank you

Pooky

Happy birthday Mrs C! X

Princess - see what you've got in and go from there, I'm happy to eat cold pasta bakes, cold lasagne, cold cottage pie etc. You could make up some mash, some pasta in a tomato sauce, rice etc to cover your carbs and then have some sliced meats or eggs/cheese.

I've got a gas hob so I can cook (plenty of matches) but the gas pressure is likely to drop significantly so it might not be practical. I've got a camping gas stove in the cupboard and with an open fire I can cobble something together.

I've got the BM going and shall get a couple of loaves made up, there's plenty of jams/spreads. The flasks have been brought to the front of the cupboard and I've just filled another 4 x 5lt water containers.

Garden is storm proofed and I've half emptied the water butt incase we get a lot of rain, my garden is almost at saturation point and I don't need an overflowing water butt to add to problems.

Just need to bring in some wood and coal but that will wait until Sunday.

katieowl_2

PRINCESSX87 wrote: »

Never fell in - Until now. Does anyone have a list of meals I can cook tomorrow that can be eaten cold? We're all electric here and don't want to chance being caught out??

A whole chicken, a bowl of potatoes (eat plain or make potato salad), any sort of roast meat for sarnies, cooked Pizza can be eaten cold.
Pasta...to make pasta salad. Or Rice..ditto. Hardboiled eggs. Cake

Kate

Nargleblast

Mrs Chip - happy birthday!
Savingqueen - never apologise for celebrating your childrens' achievements, every little bit of progress is worth celebrating.
Stiltwalker - love the sound of your little girl's costumes, I bet she had a whale of a time wearing them.
Popperwell - if you think people might think you are weird, what would they make of the motley crew posting on this thread? And put that heating on a bit, you are not extravagant, you pay your bills, and any fool can be uncomfortable.

As they say round here, it was "hoying it down" with rain this morning, but now it's blue skies and sunshine.

Possession

Forgive me a short, sharp aaaargh!
Weddings. I seem to be surrounded by people asking me for ideas on what to put into their bridesmaid's preparing for the hen night basket, no we already have ideas for their preparing for the wedding basket and their wedding gift, but we do need ideas for favours and table presents, and how much should we spend on flowers blah blah blah. ???? Is there no economic crisis? Is it necessary to go out and buy 5 sets of 6 different pamper sets and 100 table presents? If you're getting married and starting a new life together could the money (presuming you do actually have it) not be better spent on something else?
Sorry, apologies to any wedding planners. I've just reached my wedding discussion capacity today and I can't say it in real life.

maryb

lots of good ideas for dealing with aftermath of storms and power cuts over on the Prepper's thread.

I remember the 87 storm. We live in the London bit of Kent quite close to the Downs. It was quite windy when I went up to bed and I thought it very odd that the loft hatch had lifted itself out of its slot. We have a robinia in the front garden ALL those leaves like confetti were forcing themselves in through the gaps in the closed windows - the house was very draughty.

I was on my own that night as DH was on a business trip to Nottingham. I slept through it all, as I was very tired (I had ME). Next morning I woke up and realised the alarm hadn't gone off because of a power cut. Leaped out of bed got dressed and charged down the road to the station. I had to climb over two downed trees on the way but it still didn't occur to me that the trains would be affected until I turned into the station car park and saw that it was empty. Chatted to the station attendant and found out there were 20 trees across the line just between two adjacent stations so went home.

Meanwhile DH couldn't get hold of me because the phone lines were down and he was hearing horrific news reports of the damage - one of the early reports suggested a tower block had collapsed. So he hired a car to get back to London to find me peacefully drinking tea and enjoying my day off.

I think it was that weekend that the US stock exchange went into complete meltdown as well, but I only found out about that a couple of days later when power had been restored. It took a good couple of weeks before they opened up some of the smaller roads in the North Downs